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28 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 118 (2018)
Immigration Law's Due Process Deficit and the Persistence of Plenary Power

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    IMMIGRATION LAW'S DUE PROCESS

    DEFICIT AND THE PERSISTENCE OF

                       PLENARY POWER



                       CARRIE ROSENBAUM*

INTRODUCTION               ........................................................ 119
I. Detention of Asylum Seekers          ............................................120
II. Substantive Due Process Rights of Noncitizens   ................................125
       A.   Zadvydas  v. Davis and Clark v. Martinez..........................126
            1. Zadvydas  v. Davis .................................... 126
            2.  Clark v. Martinez      ............................... ...... 128
       B.   Rodriguez-Fernandez  v. Wilkinson                ............... ............129
       C.   Demore  v. Kim .......................................... 130
       D.   Jennings v. Rodriguez          ........................................132
III. R.I.L-R-Substantive Due Process Asylum  Seekers-Immigration
       Detention Cannot Be Punishment           .......................................138
IV. Non-Immigration  Civil and Criminal Preventive Detention ........            .......141
V. The Plenary Power Doctrine and Systemic Racial Bias-Asylum Seekers   in
       Detention ..................................                ................ 143
       A.   Immigration Law  and History of Mistreatment of Central
            American  and Mexican Immigrants..         .................................143
       B.   The Plenary Power Doctrine's Role in Immigration Racial
            Classifications        ...................................... ..... 151
VI. Mainstreaming Constitutional Procedural Due Process - Disaggregation
       and Rule of Law          ................................................ 152
       A.   Rule of Law and Disaggregating Immigration Law  Along  Criminal
            Immigration Lines        ...............................   .........153
CONCLUSION                 ............................................... .... 156








DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38HQ3RZ6W
         * Adjunct Professor, Golden Gate University School of Law. Special thanks to the following
colleagues and friends for their support, ideas, and comments at various stages of this Article: Marisa
Cianciarulo, Emily Torstveit Ngara, Richard Boswell, Caitlin Barry, David Baluarte, Jennifer Chac6n,
C6sar Cuauht6moc Garcia HernAndez, Kari Hong, Kevin Johnson, Anil Kalhan, Jennifer Koh, Christopher
Lasch, Mark Noferi, Philip Torrey, and Yolanda VAzquez. I am also grateful do the NYU School of Law
Clinical Writer's Workshop for allowing me to present this Article and receive meaningful feedback.
Thanks as well to Courtney Brown for stellar editorial assistance, and Pedro Viramontes, and the editorial
board of Berkeley La Raza Law Journal. And as I celebrate my fourth published law review article, I owe
special gratitude to my spouse, daughter, and mother for their continued support of my scholarly endeavors.
All errors are my own.
         This article is dedicated to the brave people who have made the incredibly hard decision to flee
their homes to come here, and three of the devoted advocates who inspire me endlessly by fighting for them,
and incarcerated people more broadly - Holly Cooper, Marty Rosenbluth, and Millard Murphy.

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